Comments on: We’re Making The Change – Now What’s Your Hope? http://dissociatedpress.com/2008/11/we-proved-we-can-do-you-have-a-hope/ Fri, 04 Jul 2014 04:16:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://dissociatedpress.com/2008/11/we-proved-we-can-do-you-have-a-hope/#comment-241 admin Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:52:12 +0000 http://dissociatedpress.com/?p=492#comment-241 The actual <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/oct/19/seymour-hersh-new-yorker-reporter" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> Guardian piece </a> was a good read; thanks. I'm still naiively utopian enough in my thinking that I wish our elected officials would address some of the abuses and violations that are already apparent, but ah well. Perhaps some return to a less-paranoid press eviscerating the Bush gang would be just as gratifying, if not as purposeful... The actual Guardian piece was a good read; thanks. I’m still naiively utopian enough in my thinking that I wish our elected officials would address some of the abuses and violations that are already apparent, but ah well. Perhaps some return to a less-paranoid press eviscerating the Bush gang would be just as gratifying, if not as purposeful…

]]> By: John Minock http://dissociatedpress.com/2008/11/we-proved-we-can-do-you-have-a-hope/#comment-239 John Minock Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:52:32 +0000 http://dissociatedpress.com/?p=492#comment-239 On further reflection, what a great time to be an investigative journalist: The Guardian talks to Sy Hersh ... Like everyone in America just now, he is on tenterhooks. A Democrat who truly despises the Bush regime, he is reluctant to make predictions about exactly what is going to happen in the forthcoming election on the grounds that he might 'jinx it'. The unknown quantity of voter racism apart, however, he is hopeful that Obama will pull it off, and if he does, for Hersh this will be a starting gun. 'You cannot believe how many people have told me to call them on 20 January [the date of the next president's inauguration],' he says, with relish. '[They say:] "You wanna know about abuses and violations? Call me then." On further reflection, what a great time to be an investigative journalist:

The Guardian talks to Sy Hersh …

Like everyone in America just now, he is on tenterhooks. A Democrat who truly despises the Bush regime, he is reluctant to make predictions about exactly what is going to happen in the forthcoming election on the grounds that he might ‘jinx it’. The unknown quantity of voter racism apart, however, he is hopeful that Obama will pull it off, and if he does, for Hersh this will be a starting gun. ‘You cannot believe how many people have told me to call them on 20 January [the date of the next president's inauguration],’ he says, with relish. ‘[They say:] “You wanna know about abuses and violations? Call me then.”

]]> By: TeacherPatti http://dissociatedpress.com/2008/11/we-proved-we-can-do-you-have-a-hope/#comment-238 TeacherPatti Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:39:34 +0000 http://dissociatedpress.com/?p=492#comment-238 I'm hopeful that Prop 2 passed in MI. Maybe my husband (lifelong Type I diabetic) will have a chance to live a long, long time. I'm hopeful that we will really, truly FUND public education (and not fund homeschooling, as McC wanted to do) by getting more teachers and smaller class sizes. And for the first time, I truly realized that one of my students can be president.* *I teach in DPS. I always knew one could be president, but now I really KNOW it, know what I mean? I am so proud of Ann Arbor, MI and the USA!!!!!! I’m hopeful that Prop 2 passed in MI. Maybe my husband (lifelong Type I diabetic) will have a chance to live a long, long time. I’m hopeful that we will really, truly FUND public education (and not fund homeschooling, as McC wanted to do) by getting more teachers and smaller class sizes. And for the first time, I truly realized that one of my students can be president.*
*I teach in DPS. I always knew one could be president, but now I really KNOW it, know what I mean?
I am so proud of Ann Arbor, MI and the USA!!!!!!

]]> By: John Minock http://dissociatedpress.com/2008/11/we-proved-we-can-do-you-have-a-hope/#comment-237 John Minock Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:53:39 +0000 http://dissociatedpress.com/?p=492#comment-237 I'm so relieved I haven't started to ponder the consequences yet, but certainly second all of your list. I’m so relieved I haven’t started to ponder the consequences yet, but certainly second all of your list.

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